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Ulysses

It is not why therefore we shall wonder if, as the best
historians relate, among the Celts, who nothing that was
not in its nature admirable admired, the art of medicine
shall have been highly honoured. Not to speak of hostels,

leperyards, sweating chambers, plaguegraves, their greatest
doctors, the O’Shiels, the O’Hickeys, the O’Lees, have
sedulously set down the divers methods by which the sick
and the relapsed found again health whether the malady
had been the trembling withering or loose boyconnell
flux. Certainly in every public work which in it anything
of gravity contains preparation should be with importance
commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted
(whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of
experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant
opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present
congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far
from all accident possibility removed that whatever care
the patient in that all hardest of woman hour chiefly
required and not solely for the copiously opulent but also
for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and
often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an
inconsiderable emolument was provided.
To her nothing already then and thenceforward was
anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens

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